A New Zealand Composer-in-Residence programme offers one building block for a Music City, and a useful question for Asia: what does a city actually need to sustain musicians? A nine-month Composer-in-Residence position at Te Kōkī New Zealand School of Music in Wellington is not, on its own, a Music City. But it is one of the things a Music City…
The 36th China Harbin Summer Music Festival officially begins recently at the Harbin Grand Theater, in the capital city of…
Original press release As this winter’s ice and snow festival is around the corner, the century-old Harbin Symphony Orchestra and…
In an effort to relieve huge environmental challenges facing Jakarta and redistribute wealth, President Joko Widodo has recently announced the plan to move Indonesia’s capital – a plan that could…
Harbin, the capital of HeiLongJiang, is a city situated in the northernmost province of China. During the late 19th century, it was widely known as the commercial and industrial hub most…
